Sirix is a temporal storage system effectively and efficiently storing snapshots of
time varying (currently semi-structured) data taking full advantage of flash based drives as for
instance SSDs. We not only provide several ways of navigating the tree-structure of a single
revision, we also support navigation in time. Furthermore we provide a novel storage technique
called sliding snapshot to circumvent intermitant full dump snapshots to fast track their
in-memory reconstruction and thus we avoiding write peaks and having to read long chains of page
fragments/increments/deltas. Sirix uses copy-on-write (COW) as well as an append-only storage
making it an ideal candidate for flash based drives while not dropping support for erstwhile
disks.